GM all. I had been having trouble with my GW4 LTE (non-classic) not recognizing my home WiFi password, when it had been for many months. I have a Note 20 5G and I'm on the Android 12 Beta. So I wrote to the Beta community and he said to delete the Gear Wear an on the watch, reinstall from the Play Store, and I mistook it for saying to remove it on the phone. Now, when I try to reconnect with the GW4, it says it will delete everything and pair as a new phone/watch. The auto backup unfortunately DID NOT save ANY backups. I have a ton of watch faces that I bought (I know I should be able tor reinstall from Play Store), some watch faces that I created (I may be able to get back), but other data that I know will be lost.
Anybody know of a way to re-connect but preserve the data. There are ways to do it with Wear OS 2, but NOT Wear OS 3. My Tizen watches were not affected and I was able to save all my Samsung Health data to my GW3. Any help, thoughts, would be greatly appreciated.
hello, yes that would be good. i reinstalled wear plugin and wear app due to latest bug on plugin app now cant connect same phone to watch. it stuck at 80-90% during setup. Dont wanna reset the watch before getting my data. No solution?
I finally gave up and reset the watch and paired it again. All is well now. This time did an immediate backup after I tweaked everything I wanted. I will try to now remember to back up at least once a week. Happy Holidays everyone!
It all has to do with the "Galaxy Watch4 Plugin". If you're having any issues syncing between phone and watch. If you end up having to reinstall it then you'll have to reset your watch too. Make sure you backup!
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Hi All,
I am using an iphone, recently I bought a s2 classic gear from my friend. Currently I see the all notifications with the phone does not matter. However, when I visit Galaxy Apps, I find it very difficult to install applications or watch faces, which always stops at Installing....0% . I want to ask is there a way to fix this error or have many people encounter this situation when using on the ios operating system?
I wonder if samsung will still be developing ios apps because i see the Gear S app has no new updates.
I am using the Samsung Gear S2 Classic 3G SM-R735T.
Thank you so much
Anybody help me this problem ?
I had this problem too. I turned off the watch and waited on my iPhone 7 Plus for the installations to fail, then turned off my phone and booted both back up. It eventually worked after doing that a few times. If that doesn't do anything, you can always try factory resetting the watch.
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I had this problem too. I turned off the watch and waited on my iPhone 7 Plus for the installations to fail, then turned off my phone and booted both back up. It eventually worked after doing that a few times. If that doesn't do anything, you can always try factory resetting the watch.
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Thanks for your replying. Temporary, I don't want to factory resetting, because I have to download again watchfaces, download apps.. Currently, I download watchfaces via my gear s2 or install via GWD, I feel satisfied with this solution . Hope that Samsung will update for their app on App Store and upgrade gear os :laugh:
I just recently got an iPhone 8+ ( )after being an Android owner for years and initially had no problems with it and my watch. After the IOS 12 update, my phone was having a problem with the battery draining, so I did a complete wipe and reset of it last night. The watch worked fine on 12 before the reset. This morning I tried to install an app and a few watch faces and the Samsung app will not let me. When I hit "install", I get a message on the app saying to "check gear". On the watch, it is asking to connect to a wifi network. I have it set to auto, which is how it has always been. I tried setting it to on all the time, and verified it was connected, but I get the same message when trying to install apps. I tried removing and reinstalling the app, but that made no difference. I really do not want to reset the watch due to the fact that there is no apparent way to backup my watch faces, and I have about 20 of them!
Has anybody else ran into a problem like this?
Never mind! I figured it out. Was just a dumb error om my part!!
Hello.
After finally getting life back in the gear 2, I wanted to use it again. Downloaded gear wearables from playstore, connected the watch with Bluetooth after factory reset, but it can't see it at all in the wearables app.
Got past the login with the taping trick at start, but don't help me much when I can't set the correct time, get notifications etc. Atleast I can take pics and monitor the heart rate xD
Do anyone know a way I can make it see the clock in the app? Or another app that can connect with it?
I found a solution that worked.
Hello, i've got a non Samsung phone. Recently there has been a bug with recently released gw4 plugin app. Bug is that wear app force prompt user to update the app although its already up to date so wear app doesnt open and watch cant connect to phone.
Reinstalled the wear app and plugin apps on watch. During pairing setup stage "Getting your watch ready" it always stuck at 80-90% and doesnt complete setup so watch cant connect to phone. Cleared cache on watch via recovery menu but didnt help. Tried connecting another phone but watch doesnt allow it without factory resetting. I dont want to reset watch as i have some health and watch settings data on it that hasnt been backed up yet. There is an adb trick to connect wearos watches to another phone without resetting but seems like it doesnt work with wearos 3. Cant manually pull the data from watch via wifi debugging either because it's not rooted. Any solution would be much appreciated. Cheers
How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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Nope that trick dont work.
My Galaxy plugin today just forget how to be a plugin and stop connecting to watch restarting it does nothing so i clear data of it and oh boy i am formatting my watch right now.
That's great
PS. If anyone find some solution for this let me know xD i have a feeling that i might need it in the future
Hi, folks. I have a couple questions regarding extra watch faces:
1) How many faces can be installed on the watch at once? If I remove some built-in faces, does that make more room for extra installed faces?
2) If I disconnect the watch and pair it with a different phone, do installed watch faces and apps persist, or are they deleted? The "disconnect" message says that all personal data will be lost, but I'm not sure if that includes installed watch faces and apps.
My reason for asking is that I'm considering factory-resetting an old phone, not installing a SIM card but using my current phone's wifi hotspot to install the AppGallery and Health apps on the old phone, in hopes that that will insulate the old phone sufficiently for me to fool it into thinking that I'm in a supported country and allow seeing the watch faces and apps that I cannot access from the U.S. However, that's pretty inconvenient, so I'll want to install as many watch faces as possible during that process to try out; also, if pairing the watch with a different phone deletes installed watch faces and apps, the whole exercise is pointless.
Thanks for any replies and especially any suggestions for being able to install watch faces and apps without having to physically visit a supported country.
A follow-up on this plan. It did work, sort of. I was able to use the old phone to create a UK-based account by keeping all location services turned off and using a UK temporary SMS number for verification. That enabled me to get watch faces and apps and install them on the watch.
However, when I went back to my main phone, deleted and reinstalled all the Huawei apps, logged into the account I created on the old phone, and attempted to connect the watch, the app and phone would not allow it, saying that they were different accounts and I needed to factory reset the watch in order to connect it. I tried turning off location services on my main phone and creating a UK-based account, but it still knew I was in the U.S. and wouldn't show the watch faces and apps in the Health app.
I'm definitely getting closer, and seeing the new watch face I installed on the watch when connected to the old phone really motivates me to make this work. Any suggestions will be very welcome.
And a final update on this: I eventually was able to get the watch faces and apps to be available on my main phone without needing to factory reset it. The method involved turning off all location services, rebooting after removing the SIM card, and using the wifi hotspot of a second phone that was VPNed to a UK-based server when creating the Huawei account. I'm not going to spend the time to write up the details, at least partly because I'm not sure that everything I did was actually necessary; hopefully this thumbnail description will be enough for anyone else in the same situation who's sufficiently motivated to replicate the results. (I will say that I'm much happier with the free watch face I installed from the gallery than I was with any of the faces that came preinstalled.)
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Not sure how it is on the GT3, but for my GT2 I just used my regular account on both my iPhone (main phone) and on an android phone, just downloaded the "custom" Huawei Health app to get custom watch faces. No factory reset or nothing, just connect to the other phone, install watch faces, reconnect to main phone.
Your steps sounded very complicated for something so easy. Unless it’s wildly different for the GT3. I came here mainly to see if my method would still work for the GT3 as it does for the GT2 (I ordered a GT3 Pro today, as it was on sale and I’m looking to upgrade).
i found thousands of free HQ watch faces here - https://faces4watch.com/downloads/huawei-watch-gt-3/